Wednesday, September 13, 2006
International Solidarity Movement activists pose with AK-47's in the presence of an Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades member:
Don't miss Lee Kaplan's latest eye-opener on this terror-support organization: The ISM-Terror Connection
...One of our volunteers in the United Kingdom for Stop the ISM managed to infiltrate the ISM late last June in the Holy Land where the ISM operates in direct support of terrorists. Our volunteer (who prefers to remain anonymous to avoid retaliatory attacks) has had prior experience going undercover for the police in the UK. The photos and intelligence he brought back are proving invaluable to intelligence agencies watching the ISM and have been in official hands for over a month prior to this publication.
Unfortunately, neither U.S. Homeland Security nor the Israeli security agencies have to date regarded the ISM as a serious threat. Some of these ISM people in these photos managed to escape; nevertheless, arrests have been made, and more are forthcoming...
Lee Kaplan is deserving of a lot of credit for intrepidly going after the ISM/PSM, exposing them for what they are. Universities are their favourite recruiting ground. These pictures and the details Kaplan provides re: connections between members and terrorist perps should be enough to make the ISM/PSM recruiters persona non grata on campus if local activists refer them to the administration.
They may also go a long way toward irradicating the myths around Rachel Corrie's accidental death.
This is a little off topic, but Georgetown's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies is hosting Walt and Mearsheimer next week. Though my first instinct is to stay away and not give them the dignity that even asking a critical question would bestow, SPME is urging its DC-based members to attend, and I figure that any audience seat occupied by an opponent of W & M is one not occupied by a supporter. So do please consider attending (& sign up quickly!) if you're reading this and are DC-based. For more info, see www.spme.net
Man! Everyone's pouncing on this pic (you, me, Malkin for starters).
When I was 16 (back in the 1970s), I was a volunteer on a kibbutz in the Gallilee. One day while clowning around with a local kibbutznik, I posed for pictures with his uzi. I still have the photo - it shows me grinning and looking mock-tough - just like these folks. What does that prove? Nothing.
The moral distinctions are real and significant.
you were at a kibbutz, presumably planting tomatoes or milking cows.
these young people are in the Palestinian territories working with an organization that supports the targeted terror bombing of civilians and the destruction of a nation.
You picked up the gun of a soldier in a legitimate army that admires to a widely-admired code of military ethics, an army that is in the service of a democratic nation-state with a high stndard of protection of human rights.
they are horsing around with guns belonging to men affiliated with a terrorist or terrorist-supporting organization that does not answer to any government, legitimate or otherwise.